DOOPDATE: Doop Returns for an All-Doop issue of Wolverine & The X-Men in September

By Steve Morris

Neverendingly working Newsarama blogger Graeme McMillanhas spotted a change in Marvel’s solicitations. Now, this may have come about as a result of a delay in art, or it may have come about because we exist in a cosmic tapestry, stitched and unstitched by the tapestrier, as may be their will or wont. But basically, issue #17 of Wolverine & The X-Men is going to kick aside the worthless cud like this ‘Wolverine’ feller out the way, in favour of an ALL-DOOP issue. Yes!

Doop, if you’ll recall, was created by Peter Milligan and Mike Allred during their run on X-Force/X-Statix, and is an all-knowing doopish green blob of infinity. He’s most recently been seen as part of Jason Aaron’s Wolverine-as-a-teacher series, in his new role as religious studies tutor:

All very well and good, I suppose. But what makes this news a bolt of blob-based brilliance is the surprise reveal that this issue will be drawn by co-creator Mike Allred. Grab your pom-poms, people. MIKE! ALLRED! Returns to Doop!

The issue will be released towards the end of September. Let’s celebrate by remembering the time Doop destroyed that jerk Thor.

JG: Speaking for Pulphope here, who is perfectly capable to answer this question himself, but what is wrong with working for the big two knowing where things stand and getting a reasonable paycheck for doing WFH work? When you ALSO, as Pulphope does, constantly create your own work?

I think it’s a balance of original and WFH that makes a successful career. Certainly nowadays it seems that doing original stuff as a portfolio piece for a more lucrative job in animation or TV is generally the way to go.

Hm. Can I reconcile this with my boycott of Kirby-derived Marvel product? On the one hand, I don’t see any evidence of Kirby characters being used prominently in the book; on the other, it’s got “X-Men” in the title.

Hm.

@Jacob: Presumably Milligan and Allred don’t actually own any part of Doop, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they had an equity deal of some kind. I wondered about that when he had a cameo on a recent episode of the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon; I hope they got paid for that.

@Paul: Wow, how do I not remember you drawing an issue of X-Statix? Now I’m going to have to go through my back issues. I look forward to rediscovering it!

Doop is and always has been the greatest part of the Marvel Universe (yes, even before he ever appeared in a single comic, he was somewhere in the universe, being awesome). It’s a shame that as an X-character, his film rights are owned by Fox, so he can’t be in Avengers 2.